10 Ways to expand love consciousness

Many people contemplate the meaning of love. They may refer to what they have read in storybooks, heard in media or learned second-hand, though other people's life experiences.  They may also begin to link personal shifts in feelings to ongoing whispers about the possible impact of 2012. 

A complimentary view is to recognize your understanding of love is constantly expanding based on what you choose to feel. Your beliefs, perception and identification with different energy vibrations, all influence completeness or emptiness. Consider these 10 ways to expand love consciousness; 

1) Decide you do not mind what happens. Choose to be grateful for every situation you encounter. Learn to see blessings and advantages, regardless of where you perceive to be. You sense with fear or love.  You grow due to all of it.

2) Sense love constantly sends you messages.  Know that whatever energy you feel coming at you from outside yourself, love is always bringing you the best possible scenario. You just may not choose to recognize how good you have it now.

3) Choose to transcend limitation. Mindsets can only be overcome internally. You permit ego to keep you feeling trapped or experience what it means to dissolve negative assumptions.  This evokes an incredible lightness of being.

4) Know the ego does not control you. Each instance you choose not to judge, not to rationalize, not to go on the defensive and not to blame, you are consciously permitting love to prevail. You acknowledge no reaction is a powerful statement that tells ego who is in charge of your life.

5) Restore heart energy. Each occasion you choose not to retaliate, not to seek revenge, not to generate negativity, you are shifting to experience the feeling of compassion.  The result is you feel more alive even if the sensation defies words.

6) Detach from misplaced identity. As you stop efforts to reinforce what defines you in form, you distance self from identifying with physical things. You learn that by having less, you sense more. In another way, you undergo immeasurable expansion that is nurturing a much higher awareness.

7) Recognize the relevance of boundaries. The choice to permit energy to flow freely is not the same as accepting mistreatment and believing you are a victim. You never be a victim of your own choices. Fear compels you put on the breaks but so does love in certain situations for health and well-being.

8) Align with the power of the universe. Whenever you are tempted to view a feeling as a weakness, that is only temporary as you have yet to sense the reality of the strength of feeling as you do. How is each emotion good for you?

9) Learn the power of stillness. As you gain insight into what it means to quiet the mind through disciplined meditation and not think at all, you experience the awe of nothingness.

10) Appreciate formless experience. To begin to expand inner sight and senses, you awaken to the presence of different languages and frequencies of love.  You also validate multiple dimensions and realities. Love embraces you like wings of angels.  Sense its omnipresence echoes through everything.

Comments

[Bern]

This may sound odd, but I often sense that many people truly do not know the definition of love. Many people who say they are in love are often projecting an image of what they wish another to be and if they do not meet such criteria, then they will try to change them in what they believe to be an act of love. However, this is the opposite of love.

Love is the allowing of all energy and things to just be as it is. I love you, therefore, I accept you without judgement or bias. If one were to just be, then they would then celebrate the existance of the energy that presents its self at any given moment. If something grabs our attention, and therefore excites us or energizes us, we can dance with the object, and perhaps even become the object by melding with its essence. I like to call this love, because it is embracing what is.

Then, perhaps by attaching one's self to nothing at all, one can paradoxically slip into a sense of everythingness. Perhaps this is Rapture and a returning to unlimited consciousness without barriers. This is perhaps True and Pure Love.

[Lance]

Liara,
Over the last several months, I have had, very much, this connection with my soul - coming from my daily morning quiet times. And out of this, something I've just really noticed recently is how much more compassion I have for everything all around me. And, I relate this directly to making this stronger connection with my soul. And out of that compassion, also - is love. And I'm not saying I always get it right (because I certainly don't), but when I truly am more connected to "me", love prevails...

[Liara Covert]

Bern, many human beings find it easier to grasp the concept of love by learning in practice, what love is not. The notion of choosing to love others unconditionally assumes a person has already arrived at a mental state where he does not judge. To presume someting is "odd" revels doubt and self-judgment. Many people have not yet reached the state of unconditional acceptance. Learning continues.

Consider how some people justify connecting with others or detaching and distancing from others. If a person says he loves you and then leaves you because you suddenly fall sick, lose your money, position or, those physical things he identified with, then this is not unconditional love. Attachment and detachment are often ephemeral.

To reach that mental place where you sense form and yet, feel capable of moving beyond form, this helps you begin to grasp what love is. It is not form. It is not what humans are conditioned to think. A person who chooses to step outside what he thinks he knows begins to understand the meaning of knowing nothing and feeling everything.

[Liara Covert]

Lance, connecting with soul is a timeless experience. You pull your point of view out and a higher perception rises above that. Consciousness separates from your physical identity and enables you to better understand your journey through the eye of other creatures and entities. You sense yourself as a bird, a spirit, the wind, the clouds. Some energy beings translocate in the broad daylight. You may sense an initiation of understanding that defies words. Something beyond you is expressing where you are is noticed. You are loved and supported all along your path.

[Loving Annie]

Good Sunday evening to you, dear Liara.
Those ten things resonate as clear expressions of divine loving.
How nice it is to feel their truth enfold and radiate from me and others...
Thank you for the gift of this post.

[Liara Covert]

Loving Annie, sometimes people forget that self-love is not selfish. Such love can be viewed as healthy confidence and self-esteem. Another view is that authentic self-acceptance is not something a person feels compelled to advertise. This is a silent state of self-acceptance, an understanding of timeless happiness unrelated to any physical or other attachment. To connect with soul is to grow aware of oneness with all things and love immortal. To sense you are always loved and valued as you are is life-transforming. The inner voice invites you to accept truth.